An educational tool for criminal justice research built on examining parole hearing data

The Parole Hearing Data Project is an open repository of New York State parole hearing data currently based on records scraped from the New York State Parole Board’s website. So far, we have gathered 30,000+ records and formatted them for analysis. This project is in development.

The Parole Hearing Data Project was created by Nikki Zeichner, a former New York City-based criminal defense attorney and current Fellow with the Governance Lab at NYU. Her interest in examining the NYS parole board's release practices grew out of her experience preparing a man for his tenth hearing in front of the NYS parole board. The Parole Hearing Data Project is part of a broader body of work that can be found on the Museum of the American Prison's website.